WRITER

Zitkala-Sa

1876 - 1938

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Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: Zitkála-Šá, meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her Anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zitkala-Sa has received more than 1,587,447 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Zitkala-Sa is the 5,641st most popular writer (down from 5,117th in 2019), the 8,567th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,820th in 2019) and the 659th most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

American Indian Stories
Biography, Government relations, Indians of North America
1921
Dreams and thunder
Folklore, Indians of North America, Literary collections
2001
Old Indian legends
Dakota Indians, Folklore, Indians of North America
1901
Impressions Of An Indian Childhood
2004
Iktomi and the ducks and other Sioux stories
Dakota Indians, Folklore
2004
Dance in a Buffalo Skull (Prairie Tales)
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zitkala-Sa ranks 5,641 out of 7,302. Before her are Stephen Spender, Olavi Paavolainen, Karin Slaughter, Jerry Falwell, Masih Alinejad, and Eugène Dabit. After her are Edwin Arlington Robinson, Michael Scott, Carsten Jensen, Kate Wilhelm, George William Russell, and Herman Teirlinck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Zitkala-Sa ranks 179. Before her are Elisabeth Moore, Paul Montel, William Carr, Henri Hérouin, Georg Hilmar, and Ernest Henry Wilson. After her are Ernest Esclangon, Edgar Evans, Cécile Tormay, Edith Abbott, Clara Blandick, and Mariam Thresia Chiramel. Among people deceased in 1938, Zitkala-Sa ranks 201. Before her are John Exley, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Herbert Jamison, Michel Giacobini, Johannes van Dijk, and Harry Myers. After her are Warner Oland, Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Mikuláš Galanda, Walter Migula, and Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zitkala-Sa ranks 8,567 out of 20,380. Before her are Bob Kurland (1924), Karin Slaughter (1971), James Broderick (1927), Steve Harwell (1967), Chuck Mangione (1940), and Christian Pulisic (1998). After her are Ernie Davis (1939), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Jennifer Batten (1957), Alice Calhoun (1900), and Miriam A. Ferguson (1875).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zitkala-Sa ranks 659. Before her are Howard Ashman (1950), Lin Carter (1930), David Benioff (1970), Max Eastman (1883), Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), and Karin Slaughter (1971). After her are Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869), Kate Wilhelm (1928), MacKenzie Scott (1970), William Blum (1933), Michael Shermer (1954), and Kevin Kelly (1952).

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